The Subsequent ‘Star Wars’ VR Sport Has a New Trailer and Launch Date

It’s time to collect and play with Star Wars toys like by no means earlier than. ILM and Lucasfilm simply introduced that Star Wars: Beyond Victory – A Mixed Reality Playset can be launched on October 7 completely for Meta Quest 3 and 3S. It’s a component narrative journey, half racing playset VR expertise that offers you an opportunity to stay a model new Star Wars story and likewise race pods such as you would in your yard.

Don’t fairly get what which means? Right here’s the brand-new, full trailer, which makes it a lot clearer.

The sport is damaged down into three modes. There’s “Journey Mode,” the place you play in a narrative as an up-and-coming podracer who’s mentored by Sebulba, that includes full VR and blended actuality races. There’s “Arcade Mode,” which is simply principally a blended actuality podracing recreation, after which there’s “Playset Mode,” the place you possibly can acquire and show all method of Star Wars goodies.

We had been fortunate sufficient to play the sport at Star Wars Celebration Japan and located it to be a brilliant distinctive mix of all method of childhood play. It’s a VR combo of a racing online game, a stand-up arcade recreation, and racing Matchbox vehicles on the ground. (You can read our full report here.) Plus, it’s set through the Reign of the Empire, so we get some good updates on a few of your prequel favorites

“This expertise is designed to have a good time storytelling, motion, creativeness, and all the things we love about Star Wars,” Jose Perez III, director of Star Wars: Past Victory – A Blended Actuality Playset, stated in a press launch. “We wished to offer gamers a brand new technique to step contained in the galaxy and make it their very own.”

That includes some well-known Star Wars voices like Greg Proops, Lewis MacLeod, and Bobby Moynihan, Past Victory seems to be prefer it’ll be a enjoyable, distinctive addition to the Star Wars canon.

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